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FILE - Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald reacts during a news conference, in this July 12, 2004 file photo taken in New York. Greenwald was behind a petition drive to get the History Channel to not air a controversial miniseries it produced about the Kennedy family. "We have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand," the network said in a statement late Friday Jan. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election has cost $6.7 million during the first four and a half months of the probe. Click to see past independent counsel investigations guilty of racking up high bills.